The Digital Library
Translations, research, and essays on the Ḥanafī tradition — its law, its creed, and the scholars who carried it — published openly by the Abu Ḥanīfah Research Association.
Six subjects organise the collection, from legal theory to the lives of the jurists.
The lives of Abū Ḥanīfah, his companions, and the jurists who carried the school forward.
0 worksSubstantive law: the rulings themselves, their evidences, and the corpus that carries them.
0 worksTransmission and criticism, and the Ḥanafī approach to the reports of the Prophet ﷺ.
0 worksQuranic exegesis, with particular attention to the legal verses and their Ḥanafī readings.
0 worksLegal theory: the sources, methods, and interpretive canons by which the law is derived.
1 worksCreed: divine attributes, predestination, faith and its boundaries in the Māturīdī tradition.
1 worksFeatured work
Kanz al-Wuṣūl ilā Maʿrifat al-Uṣūl, known universally as Uṣūl al-Bazdawī, is the work to which all subsequent Ḥanafī legal scholarship is indebted. Most early Islamic works contain little or no preface; Bazdawī's seems to fully grasp the magnitude of what it is about to achieve.
